Color Magazine — August 2012 Archive Blogger Profile

Earlier this year, Color helped The Skirtboarders celebrate their 10th anniversary as a crew, with a great little article by OG Skirtboarder Amy Mattes, and now this sick little edit shows up at Push.ca and proves that these gals are full steam ahead in 2012.

Watch this Rainy Dayz clip featuring our favourite "broads on boards," ripping an indoor park that I can only assume is on Snoop Lion's secret Quebec compound. You will likely be insanely jealous because: A) That park looks really fun and B) these women can fucking shred better than most. Be prepared to be impressed.

To read Amy "The General" Mattes' full salute to The Skirtboarders, grab a copy of Color 10.1 from The Corner Store

Check the new Bones Brigade: An Autobiography trailer and get a free download of The Search For Animal Chin.

On Saturday September 1st 2012, top skaters from far and wide will descend upon Vancouver’s legendary Hastings Bowl to compete for a piece of the $10,000 dollar prize purse. Battle At Hastings 3 presented by BLVD Skateshop, Vans and Bones Wheels. $40 to enter, free to spectate. Prepare for battle video below:

No rest for the wicked, Fos is a busy man and while in Vancouver last weekend he painted his way across town, opened an art show, partied like it was his birthday (oh it was) and went skating with friends Craig Questions, Drew Merrimen, Skylar Kehr and Deerman of Dark Woods. Timebomb Trading and Altamont bring you the action in this video blast.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of one of the greatest skateboarding videos of all time, an official Instagram campaign has been launched over at Bones Brigade HQ wherein Stacy Peralta himself has promised to release a FREE digital download of the oh-so-classic The Search for Animal Chin alongside the official Trailer for his new film Bones Brigade: An Autobiography.

Fans and Instagrammers can unlock both films by posting Bones Brigade-related photos and memories to Instagram with the hashtag #bonesbrigade. Once the campaign hits 2,000 posts, both films will be available for anyone to download from the Animal Chin website. You can also head there anytime now and follow along with the progress.

Two other points of interest: 1) of the 2,000 photos submitted, The Bones Brigade will select the very best to use for a special film project coming this fall and 2) You can now e-mail a real live person and request that the Bones Brigade doc be shown in your hometown. All the details are on the Bones Brigade website.

In the meantime, check out our buddy Roger Allen's memories from the recent screening of the Bones Brigade doc at the Red Bull lounge in Vancouver during Know Show here.

Part two of the Get Out and Do Something tour will be in the Northwest US this month, with Cardiel, Barbee, The Mattson 2 and our friend Greg 'PNut' Galinsky providing art. See video from their first leg here. Check them out in these cities:

8/22 @ 4PM
Vans at Bellis Fair Mall
Bellingham, WA

8/23 @ 4PM
Vans at Capital Mall
Olympia, WA

8/25 @ 3PM
Vans at Columbia Center
Kennewick, WA

8/26 @ 1PM
Vans at Spokane Valley Mall
Spokane Valley, WA

All summer long REAL riders have been pushing through the streets they call home. In this weeks video Ishod Wair is Pushing in Philadelphia. Check out the capsule collection and an interview with Ishod.

Skateboarder and independent filmmaker Amelia Brodka has released this teaser for her documentary Underexposed – about women’s skateboarding and the skate industry’s approach to female skateboarders – due out late August, 2012.

When Amelia Brodka first saw female skaters at the X-Games she was inspired to go skateboarding herself. But these moments of skater grrrl stoke in the media were few and far between so she set out asking the question: how can the industry promote and increase opportunities for girls and women who want to pursue skateboarding? She found the answer in producing a great film herself.

With Underexposed Brodka has interviewed many of the key players in women's skateboarding and the wider industry including the likes of Mimi Knoop and Ed Templeton, who turned Elissa Steamer pro at Toy Machine.

The doc is currently touring the US but you can follow the Underexposed Doc Facebook page to find a screening near you.

This fall's Anti-Hero goods reunite the company with Todd Francis and his twisted graphics. Watch the skies, rats with wings may be after you!

Quiksilver Canada hits the road again this summer, This time its for the east coast loc's. Come join Jordan Hoffart, Bradley Sheppard, Magnus Hanson, Dustin Henry, Zander Mitchell, Kyle Macdonald & Pat O Rourke at each of these stops:

Aug 23rd  Project 45 - Montreal, QC   7-9pm

Aug 26th  Legacy - Ottawa, OT 5-8pm

Aug 29th  Dunbat + mini ramp jam - Toronto, OT 7-9pm

Free BBQ & $$$ best trick prizes at each stop!!

Check out last years tour video's to feed some stoke: